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madmax108 on July 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Help this man decipher his cool creative code.

+1 to that. I remember computer graphics classes in college where we'd basically start off with a fixed algorithm and then play around with random variables and steps and end up with stuff that looked amazing (even though noone really knew why!) :P

DanBC on July 17, 2012 | [–]

I seem to remember JWZ saying that some screensavers were mistakes.

And the Fractint stone soup people included many "error" algorithms.

ec00 on July 17, 2012 | [–]

I feel like sharing the strange flood-fill algorithm i once stumbled upon: https://vimeo.com/699396

joshu on July 18, 2012 | [–]

Gorgeous.

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